V8 1973 VW Beetle Project by V8 Super Beetle

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Well, I got a few parts to play with.

Found a heck of a deal on craigslist. Bought an Edelbrock 600 cfm carb #1406 (electric choke) for $30. That's 30 cheeseburgers, LOL!

These parts below are on there way from Summit.


Bought a rebuild kit for the carb.

Total cost of carb about $70.  


Ordered a Edelbrock Torker II Intake, rated 2500-6500 rpm.

Last but not least, order a head gasket kit so I can install the 2.02 heads i got for the 283.

And apparently they threw in a hat into my order? LOL!

4-8-2008

For my B-Day, April 4th, I received my shipment of parts and as a gift my fiancé and soon to be mother-in-law bought (almost) every bushing and ball joint I need to completely rebuild my S10 chassis for my project. Also, I was able to score some angle iron from work to make body mounts for my VW body and I mocked up the shackle mounts. I'll post that progress later this week.

4-13-2008

It's been a little slow in the garage these past couple weeks. I've welded the side body mounts for the bug. It's basically angle iron welded flush against the bottom of the frame. I've still got to make a couple set of mounts for the front of the car and for the rear section. Then drill holes to be able fasten the body down.

I was thinking of using a long piece of angle iron to run along the side of the body so that way I could use the original bolts that run along the heater channel. That wont work out cause I had to cut a good chunk of the heater channels out so the body would drop down on the frame.